Vacation ... all I ever wanted?

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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🎵 Now that I’m away, I wish I had stayed. 🎵 Vox’s Allie Volpe explains why travel feels like such a mess right now (and how to make it a bit better). And the New Yorker’s Agnes Callard makes the case against travel altogether. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Vox’s first-ever travel guide answers some of the biggest questions about navigating the world, the country, and your own backyard: https://vox.com/how-to-travel-now Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh my god, Lexi, how was your trip to Italy?
0:03.0	Every single influencer and tick tocker who put the Amalfi coast on my 4U page over the
0:08.7	last two months deserves jail time.
0:11.4	Why?
0:12.4	What happened?
0:13.4	First of all, it's impossible to get here.
0:14.4	You have to fly into Naples, then you have to take a train from Naples to Cerento.
0:18.2	Then you have to stand in 90 degree weather waiting for a ferry to get on a ferry with all
0:22.4	of your luggage, mind you, we've been in Europe for two weeks.
0:24.8	Oh, that sucks, but at least you're in Italy, right?
0:27.9	This?
0:28.9	There's no streets here.
0:29.9	There's no cars driving.
0:30.9	So you have to walk up 160 stairs to get to the top of this gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous
0:38.1	area with these beautiful views.
0:40.0	And then also all the power went out because the Amalfi coast doesn't have the infrastructure
0:45.3	to support this tourism.
0:46.8	Oh my god.
0:48.9	Coming up on today's plane to vacation, all I ever want.
1:00.9	You're listening to today's planes.
1:03.7	This is it?
1:04.7	Is it today's plane or today's plane?
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